[1] One of his photos, "Emancipated Slaves Brought From Louisiana by Col. George H. Hanks," is in a collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
[3][4] Kimball also engaged in the real estate business while in New York City and continued in that occupation, with an office on Spring Street, after he and his wife moved to Los Angeles, California, near the beginning of 1874.
[7] In the 1880s, Kimball was a partner with attorney B. L. Peel as a mining operator, insurance agent and real estate broker in Tombstone, Arizona.
[10] Kimball returned to Los Angeles in late 1881[11] and soon placed his home at 131 New High Street,[12] the Kimball Mansion, on sale as: The most elegant private boarding mansion in Southern California; contains 18 rooms, fine parlors, large dining room, complete kitchen and laundry; black walnut furniture, Brussels carpets, marble mantels , grates and gas throughout; during the past seven years has enjoyed an extensive first-class patronage.
[citation needed] Kimball was in charge of the art gallery of the Los Angeles County Fair in 1877,[19] and in 1880 he presented a display of minerals he had collected in Arizona from more than three hundred mines, enough to fill "a four-horse wagon.